[jaclaz]

fly, on May 14 2008, 05:45 PM, said:

If the machine is a Dell, you can use the Dell utility partition to do this, then you just have to press F12 and select it... (I breezed through this thread, sorry if it was mentioned)

Yep , but that is a "peculiarity" of DELL Bioses, the idea of the thread was to use the MBR or a bootloader/bootmanager (independently from any BIOS make/brand/code).

More (GOOD) info on the DELL partition utility is here:
http://www.goodells....ility/index.htm

The BIOS has code that "intercept" the F12 and "recognizes" setting it active, the "DE" partition.

jaclaz

[fly]

jaclaz, on May 14 2008, 10:59 AM, said:

fly, on May 14 2008, 05:45 PM, said:

If the machine is a Dell, you can use the Dell utility partition to do this, then you just have to press F12 and select it... (I breezed through this thread, sorry if it was mentioned)

Yep , but that is a "peculiarity" of DELL Bioses, the idea of the thread was to use the MBR or a bootloader/bootmanager (independently from any BIOS make/brand/code).

More (GOOD) info on the DELL partition utility is here:
http://www.goodells....ility/index.htm

The BIOS has code that "intercept" the F12 and "recognizes" setting it active, the "DE" partition.

jaclaz

Yeah, I used just that site to learn how to setup a Dell utility partition to boot and reinstall an OS. I'll save all that for another thread tho...

[jaclaz]

Similar thread updated with new info:
Newish option, Terabyte MBR Utility can istall MBR's that allow for pressing a Fn key to select a "recovery" partition:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Create-My-Own-Re....html&st=26

jaclaz